[gnome-love] gnome-keyring-manager: New UI/Call for participants

[James Bowes <bowes cs dal ca>]

Hello fellow gnome-lovers!


gnome-keyring-manager isn't dead, it's just been sleeping! And now it's
time to wake it up again!

What is gnome-keyring-manager?

gnome-keyring-manager is a GNOME application to manage keyrings.
Seriously. Also, it lets you access and manipulate passwords and
information that you have securely stored in your computer using
gnome-keyring (which is already integrated with nautilus).

A brief history lesson:

The GNOME Keyring Manager project was started by Fernando Herrera and
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez last April [1] with the dual goals of developing
a high-quality application for inclusion in the GNOME Desktop, and to
encourage new people to participate in the GNOME community.

gnome-keyring-manager was proposed for inclusion in the GNOME desktop
for the 2.8 release. It was ultimately decided that more work was
needed, particularly on the user interface, before gnome-keyring-manager
would be ready for inclusion.

The future of the gnome-keyring-manager:

James Cape designed an elegant new UI for the keyring manager (a
screenshot is available [3], though it doesn't do it justice). Now, this
new UI must be integrated into the existing program. The work has
already begun; with an early start, the gnome-keyring-manager should be
ready for inclusion in the next major desktop release.

How you can help:

The keyring manager began as a collaborative effort to help new
contributors get involved in GNOME, and this is still the case. No
matter where your talents are, you can help make gnome-keyring-manager
the best application it can be. Aspiring coders, testers, documenters,
translators and those with simply great ideas are all welcomed and
encouraged to get involved.

The source is available in GNOME cvs in the gnome-keyring-manager module
under the new-glade-ui branch.

Visit the rest of the gnome-lovers on IRC (#gnome-love on GIMPNet) if
you have any questions, or if you just want to talk about all things
GNOME. Or, send an email to this mailing list (gnome-love gnome org).


-James

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/2004-April/msg00027.html
[2]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-July/msg00049.html
[3] http://www.cs.dal.ca/~bowes/g-k-m.png